Uploaded on Aug 9, 2016

After listening to so many "March and Two-Step" ragtime pieces, I started wondering--how come they're not in march form? So I was determined to write a rag in march form.

It started sounding more and more like a march. Is a piece like this, perhaps, how John Philip Sousa would write rags? That this is in the easiest of concert band keys (and a fairly common ragtime key), B flat major, makes this sound even more like a march.

I suspect I took the theme in Bars 38-43 from somewhere else, but I can't remember the tune's name. Do any of you recognize it and can name it? Please write a comment with its name if you do, and I'll edit the description with it!

...I later found out that there is a rag in a form similar to mine, complete with breakstrains, called Popularity. As shown in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irkYGvSPuro, it is by George Cohan and it was published in 1906. ...I don't think I come up with much innovation in ragtime that hasn't already been covered.

I admit that my later pieces tend to be pretty difficult to play, and the fact that I'm transcribing other pieces with similarly difficult passages doesn't help. With that being said, Chopin's Heroic Polonaise has similarly fast left hand octave passages, yet the performance in the Youtube audio source of https://musescore.com/classicman/scores/55757 and Evgeny Kissin's performance both pull off those octave passages successfully! If you can play Chopin's Heroic Polonaise, then you can play this...
...the Heroic Polonaise is dang hard to play, and its octave passages will exhaust you if you're not careful.

I admit that my later pieces tend to be pretty difficult to play, and the fact that I'm transcribing other pieces with similarly difficult passages doesn't help. With that being said, Chopin's Heroic Polonaise has similarly fast left hand octave passages, yet the performance in the Youtube audio source of https://musescore.com/classicman/scores/55757 and Evgeny Kissin's performance both pull off those octave passages successfully! If you can play Chopin's Heroic Polonaise, then you can play this...
...the Heroic Polonaise is dang hard to play, and its octave passages will exhaust you if you're not careful.